Courses 2011-12

arne eigenfeldt

Fall semester 2011

FPA 400 - Directed Studies in MaxMSP

Important Max Objects (PDF)

Week Two patch

Week Three patch - tables

Week Four patches - subpatchers, abstractions

Week Seven patch - probabilities for pitches

Week Seven - Intro to MSP

Week Eight - Soundfile playback via buffers and direct from disk

Week Nine - Player abstractions

WeeK Ten - Delay lines

Week Eleven - Recording audio

Week Twelve - Granular & Resonant Synths

Summer 2011

FPA 389 - New Media Performance

Project documentations

Project Two

• Video Mapping
• Projected Memories
• iPad Intentions
• Orange Ball
• Many TVs

Project Three

• Tree through Seasons
• Softwall and Mirrors
• Light and Flour
• Audience Non-involvement

Software Tools

Vizzie Patches

• Bundle #1 Download (may 25 2011)
  • includes text scrolling, text scattering, 3d sphere scattering, Boids, Wii Controller (needs Oscullator), a movement tracker, a flow tracker (both use cv.jit)
  • * note that you will need to replace the standard moviefoldr and playr patches *
• Bundle #2 Download (may 27 2011)
  • includes colour tracker (uses cv.jit), frog eye view, and a particle system text floater
• Bundle #3 Download (may 31 2011)
  • a 3-D mapper - map video onto a geometric 3D object
• Bundle #4 Download (june 6 2011)
  • Kinect input, Timecube, Wii Infrared

Animata

• get Animata here
• Some Max Patches and Animata files to get you started

Kinect

• info on how to get motion tracking into Max
  • note that this is a long process that requires use of the Terminal to install several packages (OpenNI, SensorKinect, NITE, OSCeleton)
• a Jitter patch that tracks full-body movement from the Kinect (requires OSCeleton et al.)

VPT

• Video Projection Tool for mapping video onto spaces/surfaces

Spring semester 2011

FPA 347 - Laptop Ensemble